Software Creation: A Study on the Inside of Human Design Knowledge

Hassan ABOLHASSANI  Hui CHEN  Behrouz Homayoun FAR  Zenya KOONO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E83-D   No.4   pp.648-658
Publication Date: 2000/04/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering)
Category: Theory and Methodology
Keyword: 
knowledge based software engineering,  human design knowledge,  

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Summary: 
This paper discusses the characteristics of human design knowledge. By studying a number of actual human made designs of excellent designers, the most frequent basic mental operations of a typical human designer have been found. They are: a design rule for hierarchical detailing reported previously, a micro design rule for generating a hierarchical expansion, dictionary operations to build a micro design rule and dictionaries. This study assumes a multiplicity of knowledge based on Zipf's theory, "the principle of least effort. " Zipf's principle may be proved and it becomes possible to understand the fundamental nature of human design.